Pscript-Specific Customized Rendering

Important

The modern print platform is Windows' preferred means of communicating with printers. We recommend that you use Microsoft's IPP inbox class driver, along with Print Support Apps (PSA), to customize the print experience in Windows 10 and 11 for printer device development.

For more information, see Modern print platform and the Print support app design guide.

Pscript5 allows device-specific customized code to inject Postscript commands into the data stream that the Pscript5 driver sends to the printer device. If you want to provide this type of customized code, you must provide a rendering plug-in that implements the IPrintOemPS::Command method.

Pscript5 calls the IPrintOemPS::Command method at a variety of points within the print job's data stream. One of the function's arguments specifies an index value that represents the current point in the data stream. Each time the function is called, it can check the index value and either provide additional stream data or not.